on last night's oscars there were several digs at the public at large about the loss of 1000 screens over the past couple of years
this was the starter kit:
not that the academy will ever read this, but a surl discussion of this topic will be interesting
why is the public cinema endangered?
- the #1 reason I dislike the public cinema is the assault on my retinas and eardrums for 15, 20 sometimes 25 minutes showing previews for films I WILL NOT PATRONIZE in any format
- #2: the price of concessions is assrape; 2 hfcs sodas and a popcorn is now $25 bringing the total expenditure to $50; and i hate hfcs; if theater owners can't make money on your film without $10 sodas then maybe the art houses and alamos of the world are the only theaters that should remain in business
- #3: you want us to patronize your best work, but it's not available; the brutalist was released on the coasts on december 20th to make your oscar deadline, nationally on january 24th and has made $10m in 5 weeks; i had never heard of it before last night; today in north texas, with 8 million residents, the brutalist is showing at 410pm at the mockingbird angelika and at 440pm at the grapevine mills amc; houston: 2 screens, 3 showings, austin, belton & el paso round out the cities where the brutalist is showing less than 10 times today in a state of 28 million people
- #4: the shopping mall was a 20th century construct overtaken by the digital age; while b&m retains it's foothold in certain segments, the advent of 82" in-home theater for the masses has already made large-screen projection obsolete for theatrical art (captain america is not theatrical art)